Proud to say Georgia

Since 1851, 25 governors of Georgia have been graduates of Georgia. At least 17 UGA alumni are presidents or provosts of colleges and universities in the U.S. Nine UGA graduates have received the Pulitzer Prize. Four UGA alumni have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Undergraduate Admissions

The University of Georgia is a national leader among public universities in the numbers of major scholarships earned by our students. We have had eight Rhodes Scholars since 1995. In the same period, our students have won 46 Goldwater Scholarships. UGA students have earned 12 Truman Scholarships since 1995, and each year we have multiple recipients of major national scholarships.

Graduate Admissions

Continuing Education

Whether you are looking for personal improvement, seeking a credential or wanting to change your career path, the University of Georgia Center for Continuing
Education delivers a variety of educational programs to meet your learning needs.

International Students

The University of Georgia has approximately 180 International Cooperative Agreements (ICAs) in over 50 countries. These agreements allow for the formal
development of activities such as faculty and student exchanges, collaborative research, seminars and workshops, and/or service programs.

Research at UGA

The Office of the Vice President for Research encourages and supports UGA research, scholarship and creative activities by assisting with the recruitment of research-intensive faculty, and providing infrastructure for sponsored research. We help to move UGA innovations into the marketplace, encourage research-based economic development, and ensure responsible conduct in research.

Centers & Institutes

UGA research addresses real-life problems, including the grand challenges associated with water, food, fuel, environment and health. It also enriches the soul through the arts, humanities and social sciences. OVPR's Interdisciplinary centers, institutes and research initiatives provide enhanced interactions and focus on advanced areas of research.

Student and Postdoctoral Research

Undergraduate students, graduate students and postdoctoral scholars are critical to the successful pursuit of research and scholarship at the University of Georgia. They contribute in multiple ways to research and scholarship in the physical, life and social sciences, as well as the arts and humanities.

PSO Units

For more than 80 years, PSO has led the University in bringing its resources to each of Georgia’s 159 counties, 500+ cities, and around the world, serving more than 110,000 individuals annually to improve the quality of life in Georgia and beyond.

Service-Learning

The University of Georgia has been recognized by the Carnegie Foundation for its institutional commitment to community engagement through teaching, research, and public service with the Community Engagement Classification. UGA was one of only 115 colleges and universities to achieve this elective classification in 2010 and joined the ranks of only 311 institutions nationally.

Campus Life

Student Affairs is a primary point of contact for students through more than 600 registered student organizations; student programming groups; social
fraternities and sororities; student leadership programs and volunteer services; and international and multicultural programs.

Health & Recreation

The 440,000-square-foot Bernard B. and Eugenia A. Ramsey Student Center for Physical Activities is one of the largest and most comprehensive fitness/exercise facilities for students and faculty in the country.

Get Involved

In 2000, UGA was the first university in the nation to organize a collegiate Relay For Life. It raised more than $115,000. UGA Relay now has over 3,200 student volunteers and has raised more than $2.3 million, benefiting The American Cancer Society.

Academic Units

Students and faculty pursue arts studies in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. The Special Collections Libraries provide access to materials related to the history and culture of Georgia, while the Willson Center and ICE promote Interdisciplinary inquiry and creative activity in the arts.

About UGA

Bird Brainy

Wanting to develop an introductory class with wide appeal that would bring more students into the study of poultry science and the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, faculty members had a brainstorm. The result was POUL 1010 "Birds in Our Lives" -- a survey of the care, health and breeding management of parrots, pigeons, game birds, falcons, chickens and other birds. Poultry science professor Adam Davis created and coordinates the 3-hour introductory class, but other faculty members help teach it.

Roger Wyatt raises homing pigeons and has good blood lines so he teaches one section, even taking students out for a homing pigeon race. And Mark Compton leads the section on birds of prey, including a falconry demonstration. Davis teaches about parrots and other pets. Poultry Science Department Head Mike Lacy leads a section on ornamental and commercial chickens. And Casey Ritz covers game birds and waterfowl, a natural for hunters.

The course, offered every fall, made its debut in 1999 with 37 students. It has been filled to capacity ever since then. More than half of the students come from outside the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, and many are from the business, forestry and education colleges. They have come from virtually every college and every major, according to Davis.

The excitement of "Birds in Our Lives" has been infectious. "Quite a few students," Davis said, "take 1010 and go on to (poultry science) 2020, an introductory course that's heavy on biology."

And the students are really drawn to the close interaction with the birds.

"Students really like the live-animal part," Lacy said. "In so many classes,they're looking at cells, molecular genetics, little bits and pieces of animal life. We're fortunate enough to be able to show them the whole animal and how it all fits together."